Parents booked over malnourished kid’s death
December 16th, 2011 - 6:24 pm ICT by IANSBhopal, Dec 16 (IANS) Police in Bhopal have booked a couple for causing the death of their two-year-old daughter who succumbed here to malnutrition six months back, a statement said Friday.
Police registered FIR No.211 against daily wage labourer Amarchand and his wife Laxmi Devi over the death of Swati on June 15 last.
The parents have protested the police move. “If we wanted to kill her, why would we have taken her to hospital for treatment? Since she died, the police have harassed us. The investigating officer demanded Rs.12,000 from us and we gave him Rs.5,000 as bribe. Despite this, they implicated us in our own daughter’s death,” Amarchand told IANS.
The cops, meanwhile, have defended their move. “We lodged the FIR on the basis of the post-mortem report which shows signs of injury on the body of the girl. Top officials have conducted the inquiry and nobody has taken any bribe,” police officer Santosh told IANS.
Malnutrition is high in Madhya Pradesh, much higher than the national average. According to state government statistics, 60 percent of children in the state are underweight.
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